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Album Premiere: Biolence – ‘Violent Obliteration’
August 28, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Portuguese death thrash band Biolence are dropping their fifth album, Violent Obliteration, on September 1 via Doomed Records, Raging Planet and Selvajaria Records. Check it out here.
Track Premiere: Sunburster – ‘Jinn’
August 28, 2025 Emily Bellino
After more than a decade, Philly sludge regulars Sunburster have their debut album on the way and you can hear the first track now.
Bent Sea’s Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth) Teams with Kevin Sharp (Venomous Concept, Brutal Truth) on New Track “My Fall”
August 27, 2025 Albert Mudrian
“My Fall” isn’t a typical Bent Sea blast furnace, but a lurching banger that recalls Brutal Truth at their mid-paced crushing best.
Album Premiere: Erosion – ‘Invasive Species’
August 27, 2025 Tim Mudd
Seven years after their punishing debut on Hydra Head Records, Vancouver’s Erosion return with Invasive Species—a filthy, blood-boiling follow-up that finds the band operating at peak ferocity.
Track Premiere: Seilies – ‘Before We Die’
August 26, 2025 Emily Bellino
Seilies want you to see this video “Before We Die.”
Blast Worship: Internal Rot
August 26, 2025 Gene Meyer
Melbourne blasters Internal Rot do not disappoint on a new split with fellow face-melters Mutilated Cop.
Album Premiere: Kratornas – “God of the Tribes”
August 21, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear Kratornas‘s full-length album God of the Tribes (mastered by Dan Swanö, Edge of Sanity), a dramatic departure from previous works.
PUBLICIST UK Returns with “Violence,” their First New Material in a Decade
August 21, 2025 Albert Mudrian
Hear the new single from current and former members of Municipal Waste, Goes Cube and Revocation in their much-loved form as Publicist UK.
Album Premiere: Visitant’s Rubidium is Very Much an Active Metallic Element
August 21, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Give the debut album from Floridian alchemists Visitant an advance listen!
Blast Worship: Ajal
August 19, 2025 Gene Meyer
Got five minutes? Good, because that’s all Kazakhstan crushers Ajal need to grind your face off.
Track-by-Track: Fermentor – ‘Agreement’
August 14, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Instrumental metal duo Fermentor (featuring members of Atheist and Beekeeper) unveil their latest album, Agreement, tomorrow but they’re here to tell you all about it today!
Track Premiere: Achathras – ‘The Despiser Triumphant’
August 12, 2025 Emily Bellino
Black metal vets try something new in Achathras.
Blast Worship: Sick Destroyer
August 12, 2025 Gene Meyer
Hear Needful Things members return with more Czech grind badassery with Sick Destroyer.
Track Premiere: Death Meta – ‘Desecrated’
August 11, 2025 Emily Bellino
Death Meta take a Myspace approach to heavy music.
Track Premiere: NecroticGoreBeast – ‘Knuckle Deep Convulsions’
August 11, 2025 Emily Bellino
Slam crushers NecroticGoreBeast release the latest from their new EP, Brute.
Track Premiere: Crimson Butchery – “Lab Rat”
August 8, 2025 Tim Mudd
Crimson Butchery are back with Stalker, their third slab of surgical brutality, and we’re thrilled to slice into the premiere of its gnarly fourth track, “Lab Rat.”
Video Premiere: Intercourse – ‘Another Song About the Sun’
August 5, 2025 Emily Bellino
The Red Chord’s Greg Weeks stars in a new video from Connecticut noise rockers Intercourse.
Video Premiere: Cultic – ‘Nomad’
August 4, 2025 Emily Bellino
Cultic embrace the thrills of battle and high fantasy on newest offering “The Nomad.”
Video Premiere: Undead – “This Side of the Grave”
August 1, 2025 J. Andrew
WATCH: Death dealers Undead wake up on the right side of the grave.
Album Premiere: Victim of Fire – ‘The Old Lie’
July 31, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear The Old Lie, the debut from Denver-based blackened crusties Victim of Fire before its release on August 1.
KONTUSION Stream New Song, “Insatiable Lust for Death,” via the Decibel Flexi Series!
July 30, 2025 Decibel Magazine
Hear and acquire this exclusive new flexi disc single from deathgrind duo Kontusion before the issue containing discs are sold out for good!
Track Premiere: Birth and Loss – “Birth and Loss”
July 30, 2025 Tim Mudd
Grind legend Takafumi Matsubara (Gridlink, Mortalized) returns with a vengeance in his latest forward-thinking project, Birth and Loss.
Video Premiere: Morgue Terror – ‘Cryptid Skin’
July 28, 2025 Emily Bellino
Horror-themed death dealers Morgue Terror showcase their style in a new music video.
Track Premiere: Aleister Cowboy – “Liquefied Bodies Scraped From A Tub”
July 24, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Denver weirdo beatdown band Aleister Cowboy are back with their third EP, Neolithic Blood Rites, out August 22 You can hear the debut track from the EP, “Liquefied Bodies Scarped From a Tub,” with us first.
Full Album Stream: Red Brick – “Thrown”
July 22, 2025 Emily Bellino
Get mad as hell with sludge duo Red Brick.
Full EP Stream: Frusen Sorg – “Jag Springer Med Avbrutna Ben”
July 21, 2025 Emily Bellino
Swedish duo Frusen Sorg rip through eight minutes of blackened crust punk on their new EP.
Album Premiere: Eternal Darkness – ‘Eternal Darkness’
July 16, 2025 Tim Mudd
Swedish death/doom legends Eternal Darkness have returned from the grave only to immediately crawl back in. Hear their self-titled final bow now.
Track Premiere: Crypt Monarch – ‘Terror From Above’
July 14, 2025 Emily Bellino
Get crushed by Costa Rican stoner-doom trio Crypt Monarch.
Album Premiere: Glacier Expand Their Post-Metal Universe with More Distant/More Violent
July 9, 2025 Tim Mudd
Boston post-metal architects Glacier return with More Distant/More Violent—a blistering, industrial-tinged companion piece to last year’s A Distant, Violent Shudder.
Full Album Stream: Viogression – “Thaumaturgic Veil”
July 8, 2025 Emily Bellino
Midwest OSDM crew Viogression riff and think hard on their latest album.
